2005

Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov is killed by Russian forces

• Moscow and Tehran sign agreement by which Russia will supply fuel for Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor and Iran will send spent fuel rods back to Russia.

• 850 people die in anti-government protests in the Uzbek city of Andijan

• Murder of Timur Kacharava, a Russian anti-fascist of Georgian descent took place.

• four bombs explode in the southern republic of Dagestan and kill eight people

• former Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov is killed by Russian troops

• Russia sells "defense" missiles to Iran

• Attacks on a Mari activist and discrimination of the Mari people in Russia

• Nalchik attack

• 2003-2013 Yukos oil boss and prominent liberal Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrested on charges of tax evasion and fraud, an early casualty of President Putin's campaign to drive Yeltsin-era 'oligarchs' out of politics. In 2005 he is sentenced to nine years imprisonment, and is pardoned and goes into exile in 2013.

• 1999-2009 Second Chechen War, Hundreds of civilians are killed and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

• 2000- Chechen Insurgency

• 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict

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